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Scarborough, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Scarborough is an eastern district of Toronto, in Ontario, holding the Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church.
About Scarborough
Where to stay in Scarborough
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Scarborough spreads its lodging across a wide district rather than one hotel strip. The choice is the corner. Beds toward the western edge sit closer to North York and the rest of Toronto, an easy run into the core for visitors who want the city within reach.
Stays near the Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church place you among the residential streets of the district's own centre, quieter and set apart from downtown. Pick your edge first.
About Scarborough
What are the main landmarks in Scarborough?
The Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church anchors the district's built landmarks. It gathers the Armenian community of Scarborough and marks one of the faith's homes across the wider Toronto. Most of the draw here is residential.
Rather than a single monument core, the district reads as a broad sweep of neighbourhoods running east from North York and East York, and the church stands among them as its clearest single point of note.
What is the history of Scarborough?
Scarborough took its formal shape in 1850. That was the year the township was drawn on the eastern flank of what would grow into Toronto, long before the modern district absorbed it. Fields worked the land here long before the houses did.
The land east of North York filled slowly with settlement, and only later did the Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church and the residential grid of the present district rise across the old fields.
Where is Scarborough?
Scarborough is a broad district on the eastern side of Toronto, spread across residential neighbourhoods east of North York and East York, within the province of Ontario.
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Updated July 2026